Anchor for tank-cars.



A. BECKER.

ANCHOR FOR TANK CARS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 20. 1915.

Patentd Aug. 31, 1915.

[1W 'ENTOR ANTON BECKER, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

ANCHOR FOB TANK-CARS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 31, 1915.

Application filed May 20, 1915. Serial N0. 29,398.

To all whom. it may concern Be it known that I, ANTON BECKER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Anchors for T ank-Cars; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descrip tion of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to tank cars and more particularly to improved anchoring means for the tank to the underframe,the object of the invention being to provide a simple and efficient anchor or fastener for tank cars, which may be quickly and cheaply formed from a single piece of sheet metal and which may be readily secured in place to effectually anchor the tank to the underframe.

lVith this and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts as hereinafter set forth and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings; Figure 1 is a fragmentary sectional view illustrating the application of my improvements; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the anchoring or fastening device; Fig. 3 is a plan view of the slotted blank from which the device is formed, and Fig. 4 is a view illustrating a modified form of the device.

1, 1, represent the members of a center girder and may comprise channel beams upon which a cover plate 2, may be located. The tank is illustrated at 3, and my improved anchor 4 is disposed between the same and the center girder. y

In constructing the anchor, I slot a flat sheet of metal 5 on the lines 6, 6 and 7, as shown in Fig. 3,-thus forming two centrally located tongues 88 projecting toward each other and approximately meeting at the transverse center of the plate. The sheet will also be provided with rows of rivet holes as indicated at 9, 10.

In order to cause the plate to conform to the contour of the tank 3 so as to lie fiat against the same, it will be bent in any suitable manner, and it will be desirable to perform the operation of bending subsequent to the slotting operation.

The tongues 8, will be bent downwardly to form depending, elongated standards 11 (leaving a central opening 12 in the plate), and the lower edges of these elongated standards may be bent outwardly to form horizontal fianges.13, in which the rows 10 of rivet holes are located.

The curved plate of the anchor is caused to rest against the bottom face of the tank and is rigidly secured thereto by means of rivets passing through the rows 9 of rivet holes.

The depending standards 11 are so proportioned that they will be spaced apart a distance about equal to the spacing of the center girder members and so that the flanges 13 will be seated on the cover plate 2 over the upper flanges of said center girder members.

The anchor is secured to the underframe of the car by means of rivets 11 passing through the rows of holes 10 in the horizontal flanges 13 at the lower edges of the elongated standards 11, and through the upper flanges of the center girder members.

If desired, the horizontal flanges at the lower edges of the elongated standards may be made to project inwardly as shown at 15, Fig. 1, instead of outwardly as shown in Fig. 1.

Having fully described my invent-ion what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is:-

A tank car anchor comprising a plate having its body slotted forming tongues, said tongues extending downwardly from the body of the plate and having horizontal flanges at their lower edges to be secured to the center girder of the car.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in. the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ANTON BECKER.

Witnesses C. H. lVnBnR, T. A. LIVINGSTON. 

